Conway's Game of
Life

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About Game of Life

British mathematician John Conway came up with the idea of game of
life. It is a type of cellular automation for studying thing such as
computability theory and theoretical biology. The first public
appearance of the game was in the October 1970 issue of the Scientific
American. The rules of the game are
as follows:

A neighborhood is defined as any of the 8 cells adjacent to a cell.

If a living cell has < 2 neighbors, it will die from
under-population.

If a living cell has 2 or 3 neighbors, it will continue living.

If a living cell has > 3 neighbors, it will die from
over-population.

If any dead cell has exactly 3 neighbors, it will become alive from
reproduction.

Over the years, the game has been studied in many ways because there
are many ways in which patterns can emerge. There are for example, many
patterns of "still-life", oscillators, and infinite patterns.